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Ethereum block builder Titan Builder earned $34.5 million in the past 24 hours, surpassing Tether ($16.43 million) to take the top spot.Earlier reports indicated that a user, while exchanging approximately $50.43 million aEthUSDT for AAVE via CoWSwap, ended up receiving only about 327 aEthAAVE, worth approximately $36,000, due to slippage exceeding 99%. Titan Builder made a profit of about $34 million.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has now made the United States the core of its expansion plans and has gained support from allies of the Trump administration, including Commerce Secretary and long-time Tether supporter banker Howard Lutnick, whose family company has also invested in Tether.Tether launched a new token in the U.S. market this year and has strengthened its lobbying efforts in Washington. At the same time, Tether is attracting investors globally, attempting to establish a company valuation of $500 billion, making it one of the highest-valued private companies in the world.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that the company plans to complete a full audit by the end of 2026 and is currently in communication with the Big Four accounting firms. Tether disclosed that its profits exceeded $10 billion last year and currently holds about $122 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds, making it the 17th largest holder of U.S. Treasuries globally.Additionally, Tether is promoting its compliant token USAT in the U.S. market and has made over 140 investments in areas such as artificial intelligence, energy, and brain-computer interfaces.

Hyperbot data shows that Ma Ji Da Ge Huang Li Cheng has once again increased his position in the 25x leveraged Ethereum long position about 1 hour ago, currently holding 6,400 ETH, with an unrealized profit of approximately $484,000 and a liquidation price of around $1,980.In addition, he has currently placed 23 limit sell orders in the range of $2,117 to $2,200.

Etherscan posted on social media that there were approximately 17 million poisoning attempts on Ethereum from 2022 to 2024, affecting 1.3 million users, with confirmed losses of at least $79.3 million. After the Fusaka upgrade (December 3, 2025), transaction costs will decrease significantly, and dust transfers will explode, increasing by 612%.Etherscan recommends that users take the following measures:Always manually verify the complete target address before transferring (most important)Add private name tags for frequently used addresses + use ENS domain namesEnable the Etherscan Address Highlight feature · Pay attention to pop-up reminders when copying addresses.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, Ethereum OG Andrew Keys (@AK_EtherMachine) sold 618 ETH today, worth approximately $1.27 million.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs is $72.3677 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was the Fidelity ETF FETH, with a single-day net inflow of $52.0195 million. Currently, FETH's historical total net inflow has reached $2.385 billion.Following that is the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $18.6814 million. Currently, ETHA's historical total net inflow has reached $11.949 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $11.862 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 4.76%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $11.719 billion.

According to crypto analyst Trader T, the net inflow for the U.S. Ethereum spot ETF yesterday was $72.45 million.Among them, ETHA (BlackRock) had a net inflow of $18.77 million; FETH (Fidelity) had a net inflow of $52.02 million; ETHW (Bitwise) had a net inflow of $0.89 million; EZET (Franklin) had a net inflow of $0.78 million.

According to data from Agentscan and 8004scan, the BNB Smart Chain has currently registered over 34,000 AI agents adopting the ERC-8004 standard, surpassing Ethereum's mainnet with 14,000 and Base with 16,500, making it the network with the highest number of on-chain AI agents. Since the beginning of this year, the total number of ERC-8004 agents across chains has increased from 337 to nearly 130,000, a growth of over 39,000%.On-chain activity is also rising. On March 10, the daily transaction count of agents on BSC reached a historical high of nearly 523,000; on March 11, the daily trading volume of agent-driven DEX also exceeded $18.1 million.

Etherscan warns users that a victim received 89 address poisoning transactions within 30 minutes after making two stablecoin transfers.Address poisoning attackers monitor blockchain activity and create fake addresses that resemble the beginning and ending characters of valid addresses the user has interacted with. They send almost worthless small transfers to the target, making these addresses appear in the transaction history, tricking users into mistakenly copying the attacker's address during subsequent transfers. Etherscan advises users to always verify the complete target address and use its address highlighting feature to distinguish similar addresses.

According to market news, BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust (ETHB) had a trading volume of $15.5 million on its first day of listing.Nasdaq data shows that ETHB traded 592,804 shares on its first day of trading on Thursday, corresponding to a trading volume of approximately $15.5 million. Although this figure is lower than the first-day performance of two Solana staking funds last year, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart still gave a positive assessment, stating, "This is very, very solid for a first-day listed ETF."

The official Ethereum team stated on the X platform that privacy within the Ethereum ecosystem is undergoing a transformation, and it could even be described as a renaissance. Ethereum originated from the cypherpunk movement, which has been part of the struggle for digital rights through open-source technology for decades, with the foundation of this struggle being the protection of privacy rights, meaning that users' online activities should not be repackaged and used for commercial purposes. Cypherpunk signifies a commitment to resisting censorship, open source, privacy, and security (abbreviated as CROPS).The new cypherpunk is a contemporary collaborative concept that upholds cultural values such as permissionless, privacy, decentralization, anti-censorship, trustlessness, and open source. It is oriented towards positive-sum games but rooted in a realistic political understanding of self-defense. Today's Ethereum embodies the new cypherpunk, modernizing traditional interpretations. This is cypherpunk with an Ethereum twist!The new cypherpunk is part of Eric Hughes' legacy, who is a paradigm of the deepest understanding of how to achieve privacy within the cypherpunk community. At the end of 2023, Vitalik called on the community to "revitalize Ethereum cypherpunk," and now may be the best time to become advocates for privacy within the Ethereum ecosystem.

According to Bloomberg, Tether Holdings SA Chief Investment Officer Richard Heathcote announced his resignation and will transition to a non-executive advisory role, no longer responsible for daily operations. His deputy, Zachary Lyons, will succeed him.During his tenure, Richard Heathcote led the management of Tether's reserve assets and drove a series of diversified investments for the company, covering areas such as football clubs and humanoid robots.

According to The Block, on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant states that Ethereum is facing an "adoption paradox," where network activity has reached an all-time high, yet the price of ETH has significantly dropped.The research director at CryptoQuant indicated that if the bear market continues, ETH could further decline to around $1,500, a level that may be reached by the end of Q3 or the beginning of Q4 this year. Data shows that Ethereum's daily active addresses hit an all-time high last month, surpassing levels seen during the 2021 bull market, while ETH has dropped over 50% from this cycle's peak. Activity generated by smart contracts and automated protocols has also surged, with internal contract calls reaching an all-time high last month, but the historical relationship has deteriorated, weakening the positive correlation between ETH prices and contract-driven activity.CryptoQuant pointed out that exchange inflows explain ETH price dynamics better than network activity metrics, and a higher exchange inflow ratio of ETH relative to Bitcoin indicates stronger relative selling pressure. Ethereum's realized market cap has recently turned negative over the past year, indicating that capital is flowing out, even as on-chain activity continues to grow. The research director stated that ETH needs to see positive capital inflows and lower exchange inflows to emerge from the bear market.

Ethena announced that the unbonding cooldown period for sUSDe will change to a dynamic mechanism, linked to the amount of liquid stablecoins in the USDe reserves. This means that the current unbonding period for sUSDe, which has been a fixed 7 days since the project launched, will be adjusted to just 1 day. In the future, the cooldown period will dynamically vary between 1 day and 7 days based on the composition of liquid assets in the USDe reserves.

According to official news, Puffer Finance announced a partnership with institutional-grade crypto platform Anchorage Digital. Anchorage Digital clients can earn Ethereum staking and restaking rewards by holding pufETH (Puffer liquidity re-staking token), while maintaining institutional-grade custody and security standards.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino posted on the X platform that there are currently about 571 million users on the Bitcoin chain, with a quarterly growth of over 10 million; the number of USDT users is slightly less, around 550 million, but with a quarterly increase of over 30 million.He stated that Tether has always proudly followed in the footsteps of Bitcoin.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that the fundamental value of Ethereum is not its smart contracts or payment functions, but rather as a publicly writable and readable "bulletin board" that provides data availability support for cryptographic protocols.He pointed out that many cryptographic protocols—including secure online voting, software version control, certificate revocation, and more—require a public data space, and the upgraded PeerDAS mechanism in Ethereum can increase data availability by 2.3 times, with the potential for further increases of 10 to 100 times.Buterin also emphasized the role of ETH in payments, resistance to Sybil attacks, and security deposits for smart contracts, making it a core component of a decentralized, private, and secure open-source tech stack.He believes that Ethereum can be seen as a "global shared memory," and improvements in low fees and scalability will further drive its application in various scenarios, including DeFi and more potential use cases.

According to The Block, Bitcoin infrastructure company Ark Labs has completed a $5.2 million seed round financing, with participation from institutions such as Tether, Ego Death Capital, and Epoch VC, as well as Anchorage Digital and former PayPal Vice President of Finance Ralph Ho.

According to CoinDesk, BlackRock's Staked Ethereum Exchange-Traded Fund iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB) will be listed on Nasdaq this Thursday. ETHB will hold spot ETH and stake a portion of its holdings, aiming to combine exposure to the price of Ether with staking rewards, while providing the operational advantages of an ETF.

Since Bitcoin plummeted to $60,000 on February 8, the arbitrage positions of the decentralized stablecoin protocol Ethena have dropped sharply from over $2 billion to below $800 million, a decline of over 60%.Ethena's business model relies on fulfilling the demand for counterparties from leveraged long positions in the perpetual contract market. The significant shrinkage of positions indicates that short sellers and hedgers in the market are filling roles that were originally dominated by arbitrage traders. Analyst SoskaKyle pointed out that this shift is mainly due to crypto venture capital firms and small to medium-sized projects entering the market in large numbers to hedge in order to protect treasury assets and lock in profits, resulting in crowded trades shorting various related cryptocurrencies.Currently, the long and short positions in the derivatives market are approaching equilibrium, a state that is historically rare and difficult to sustain, suggesting that the market may be at a critical point of directional change.